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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just wanted to share this new post about my work on medieval disability studies! 🦮 🏰 #medievalsky communities.springernature.com/posts/why-ca...

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Why care about medieval guide dogs?

How medieval disability studies can help us approach modern social issues

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just wanted to share this new post about my work on medieval disability studies! 🦮 🏰 #medievalsky communities.springernature.com/posts/why-ca...

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Why care about medieval guide dogs?

How medieval disability studies can help us approach modern social issues

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

!!! The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections (2025) has already been viewed over 8000 times 😭 thanks for the interest in this book everyone! Free open access copy available here: academic.oup.com/book/59790

Citation and view counter, with 2 citations and 8020 views

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🏰 🦮 Delighted to see the write-up about my work on medieval guide dogs featured on the front page of Quest magazine this month 🦮 🏰 #MedievalSky #MedievalArt

On the left: this month's issue of Quest magazine, with an arrow pointing to the headline about guide dogs (in Dutch) and on the right, a write up about my project on medieval guide dogs and the history of guide dogs.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🏰 🦮 Delighted to see the write-up about my work on medieval guide dogs featured on the front page of Quest magazine this month 🦮 🏰 #MedievalSky #MedievalArt

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Back from the workshop on Anglo-French hosted by the Learning Anglo-French Project (@medievalfrench.bsky.social) . Great getting an update on some of the ground-breaking interdisciplinary work happening, and left with some promising ideas for collaborations. Thanks to the project team in Exeter!

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Absolutely thrilled to learn that my book was selected as a 2026 SHARP Book History Book Prize Finalist, and honoured to see it alongside so many excellent volumes 😊

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Absolutely thrilled to learn that my book was selected as a 2026 SHARP Book History Book Prize Finalist, and honoured to see it alongside so many excellent volumes 😊

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Can't believe it's been a year since the publication of my book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England! 📖 Run to your local bookstore to buy your copy 🏃‍♀️ but actually don't 😊 because the whole book is free to download from Oxford's site: 🎉 🙌 🎂 academic.oup.com/book/59790?l...

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

👉 Deadline approaching! Funded PhD position in The Netherlands on medieval representations of disability

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

👉 Deadline approaching! Funded PhD position in The Netherlands on medieval representations of disability

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

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PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Can't believe it's been ten years since I adopted this little one (after my father rescued her from a truck engine on a country road)

On the left a tiny kitten (Clio) peeking out behind a laptop screen. On the right Clio sitting on a black sofa.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Can't believe it's been ten years since I adopted this little one (after my father rescued her from a truck engine on a country road)

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I don't understand how every picture of my cat makes her look like a motivational speaker

Kallisti the caliby cat looking regal on her cat tree

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible

Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Incredibly honoured to learn that I have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society royalhistsoc.org/society-elec...

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Society elects 233 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members | RHS

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

!! One of my former thesis students is at Leeds IMC and just sent me a picture of my @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book out in the wild #MedievalSky

Book (The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England) on a book table at Leeds International Medieval Congress

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

!! One of my former thesis students is at Leeds IMC and just sent me a picture of my @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book out in the wild #MedievalSky

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@kmilne.bsky.social Congrats on the great review of Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England in the latest Speculum! boydellandbrewer.com/book/manuals...

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Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England – Boydell and Brewer

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🦮🎉Delighted to announce that my third book is forthcoming this summer: Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 - 1500

Cover of a forthcoming book: Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 - 1500 by Krista Milne

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🎉Almost 2000 views! So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊). The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇 academic.oup.com/book/59790

Cover of the book: The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

When I retire I want to open a more historically informed version of Medieval Times for England in which knights have the Virgin painted on the inside of their shields and wealthy guests are expected to bring books of hours and there is an anchorite living in the entryway

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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 20/05/2025

Thank you Dr. Milne for the first (of many? 🤞🤞) OUP book unboxings on Bluesky! Now that you've seen behind the scenes, find out how England’s medieval manuscripts met their fate in this insightful book 🗃️: academic.oup.com/book/59790

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It's here!!!! 🎉 Unboxing my second book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England (Oxford University Press, 2025) 📦🪄📖

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It's here!!!! 🎉 Unboxing my second book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England (Oxford University Press, 2025) 📦🪄📖

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

🦮🎉Delighted to announce that my third book is forthcoming this summer: Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 - 1500

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing a moment of the printing process: two men are lifting the paper from the woodblock. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing the giant woodblick, and the giant printed paper open air. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New open access book; perhaps of interest to #medievalsky

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

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The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections

Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just heard that copies of The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England are getting printed as we speak! Can't wait to share this book with everyone.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just heard that copies of The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England are getting printed as we speak! Can't wait to share this book with everyone.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Heading home after the Medieval Academy of America centenary conference in Harvard. So many good papers and promising work by emerging scholars 😊

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My students had to share their medieval cooking projects with our class today and it was easily a high point of my week 10/10

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just to say that like every year it's so nice to see your kids dressing up as Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2019) for World Book Day. Keep the pics coming!

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just did the final final check of the cover for my book (out in April!). My niece, age 4, helped me decide on the cover colours and I think she did a great job 😊

Book cover: The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections (Oxford University Press)

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